canon, not cannon. somehow i think this isn’t the first time its been typo’d. otherwise it’s a nice project. i use fd lenses with a converter on my d30 but it makes infinity focus impossible.

Posted at 11:28 am on Jan 11th, 2009 by entropia

i love lens projects. back in the days of film and no autofocus I got a surplus 200mm f4.5 copy lens for about eight bucks and mounted it on a sliding tube with a t-mount; it was heavy and long compared to a normal 200mm telephoto but razor sharp and capable of nearly 1:1 macro. i need to get a dslr and update my old rig for it.

Posted at 12:58 pm on Jan 11th, 2009 by localroger

Could you rename D60 to EOS-D60? Cause D60 is also a camera from nikon ;-)

Posted at 1:50 pm on Jan 11th, 2009 by nezza-_-

I was confused for a second on the camera make, thought they where talking about the Nikon D60

Posted at 6:46 pm on Jan 11th, 2009 by theweirdness

@nezza: that’s what I was thinking. this site always has canon hacks and I thought us Nikon guys finally caught something

Posted at 7:35 pm on Jan 11th, 2009 by sarsface

Nikon calls theirs the D60, whereas Canon’s model is the 60D

Posted at 8:06 pm on Jan 11th, 2009 by brandname

The Canon D60 was built and sold in 2002, well before Nikon got unoriginal. I call it the FD60 in honor of the adopted mount. Just not sure how to affix the old logo to the new body without it looking ridonculous.

Posted at 10:34 pm on Jan 11th, 2009 by pete

@entropia:
Yes, it brings a whole new meaning to ‘point and shoot’…!

Posted at 11:17 pm on Jan 11th, 2009 by stone

Cool, but hardly innovative. high end photographers have been modifying cameras for decades.

I remember a old guy in college that modified his russian build medium format camera to use what he called “low quality, cheap” canon and Nikon lenses for his camera.

The man had photographs all over campus blown up to 20X30..

still cool. they need to affix a bellows to the front to make it cooler!

Posted at 6:41 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by fartface

@fartface

I don’t think he was going for innovative unless you define that as something you can’t buy. I love old lens and am fortunate enough to have started with nikon so i can use them without trouble.

If i were in the same spot with canon lens, i would dream of doing this.

I’m curious abuot your friends medium format camera. Kiev 88, or Kiev 60? I can’t think of a reason to put a nikon or canon 35mm lens (The only ‘cheep’ lens made by them) on a medium format camera. I would love to know more about that project.

I <3 my kievs

Posted at 8:51 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by alex

The photographer in me is having a boner offa this o.o

Posted at 9:16 am on Jan 12th, 2009 by blizzarddemon

Hey, savad am, piss off.

Posted at 4:37 am on Jan 13th, 2009 by Adam

What an exceptional post

Posted at 3:31 am on Mar 13th, 2009 by Madilyn Mcclure